Kim, 39, ended a 12-year exile from the game earlier this year when he signed a one-year deal to compete on the Saudi-funded circuit throughout 2024 as a ‘wild card’.
Prior to making his shock comeback at LIV Jeddah in March, the American hadn’t played a competitive round of golf since the Wells Fargo Championship on the PGA Tour in May 2012.
Speculation over his disappearance, and the circumstances of it, quickly became one of the biggest golf mysteries of modern times, spawning multiple urban legends and rumours.